Florida Congressman Greg Steube (R) has introduced the Countering Harmful Adversarial Rechargeable and Generative Energy Act (CHARGE Act), which prohibits the importation of energy storage systems containing remote monitoring capabilities from Chinese entities.
“China has made its intentions known with its rapidly growing surveillance state and blatant disregard for the security of the United States,” Rep. Steube said in a press release.
The CHARGE Act would ban the importation of specific energy storage systems that possess remote monitoring capabilities that are owned, licensed, or manufactured with technology originating from China.
According to the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission’s 2025 Annual Report, they made a recommendation that calls for an end to the “import of energy storage systems with remote monitoring capabilities that are manufactured by or made with technology licensed from Chinese entities.”
“The U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission has made clear in their 2025 Annual Report to Congress, the United States cannot afford the risk of China spying on our power grid and the energy consumption of Americans with remote monitoring capabilities,” Steube explained. “That is why I have introduced the CHARGE Act to prohibit the importation of energy storage systems from China that contain remote monitoring capabilities and compromise our national security.”
The CHARGE Act is the latest bill introduced that intends to sever dependency on resources from China.
Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) has led the push to move medical, technological, and financial resources that have been outsourced to China and Chinese companies, back to the U.S. in the name of national security.
“Communist China cannot be trusted, and the faster we get them out of our supply chains, the better!” Sen. Scott shared in a post on X when Tesla announced they were moving production to the U.S.
